Team

*1978     in Cochem/Moselle, raised in Hetzerath/Rhineland-Palatinate,
3 children (*2003, *2005, *2014).

Study and academic career

• 2021: Full professorship for theoretical chemistry at the University Leipzig
• 2016:  Habilitation in the field of the Theoretical Chemistry, Philipps-Universität Marburg
• 2015:  Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University (Stanford University, USA)
• 2012, 2015:  Visiting Researcher, University of Warwick (UK), Massey University (New Zealand), TU Munich
• 2010 – 2020:  Research Group Leader “Computational Chemistry for Functional Materials”, Philipps-Universität Marburg
• 2008 – 2010:  Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, Massey University, Auckland (New Zealand) with Prof. P. Schwerdtfeger
• 2007:  Research Associate at Philipps-Universität Marburg
• 2004 – 2007:  PhD in Theoretical Chemistry (Prof. G. Frenking) at Philipps-Universität Marburg “Divalent Carbon(0)-Compounds: Quantum Chemical Studies of the Bonding and Reactivity of Carbodiphosphoranes and Analogues”
• 1998 – 2003:  Chemistry studies (Diploma) at Philipps-Universität Marburg and University of Auckland/New Zealand

• 2016     Hans G. A. Hellmann-Preis by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie (AgTC)
• 2015     IAS Residential Fellowship of the University of Warwick (1 week)
• 2013     Alumni fellowship by Feodor Lynen scheme of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (6 weeks)
• 2010     Forschungsförderungsfond der Philipps-Universität Marburg (2 yrs)
• 2009     Feodor Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2 yrs)  
• 2008     Postdoctoral fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (1 yr)

• 2022     Semiconductor Surface Chemistry (International Workshop), Telluride (USA)‡
• 2015     Simulation of chemistry-driven growth phenomena for metastable materials
  (Internationaler Workshop, CECAM/Psi-k/EU-COST), Rauischholzhausen† , 36 participants tinyurl.com/hnshe2o
• 2015     Comp. methods for periodic systems (Workshop), Marburg† , 16 participants
• 2015     Bonding Analysis Workshop 2015 (Int. Workshop), Marburg‡, approx. 40 participants
• 2013     Computational methods for periodic systems (Workshop), Marburg† – approx. 20 participants
• 2012     VASP-Workshop, Marburg† – approx. 20 participants
• 2010     Humboldt Conference, Dunedin (New Zealand)‡ – approx. 150 participants
• 2008     WATOC Satellite meeting, Auckland (New Zealand)‡ – approx. 50 participants
• 2006     Symposium “Computational Chemistry”, Rauischholzhausen◊ – approx. 80 participants
• 2004     40th Symposium Theoretical Chemistry (STC), Suhl◊ – approx. 220 participants

† main organisation  ‡ co-organisation  ◊ preparation and execution

• Chemical Communications
• ChemPhysChem
• Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
• Dyes and Pigments
• European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
• Inorganic Chemistry
• International Journal of Molecular Sciences
• International Journal of Quantum Chemistry
• Inorganica Chimica Acta
• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• Journal of Computational Chemistry
• Journal of Fluorine Chemistry
• Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical
• Langmuir
• Molecular Physics
• Nature Communications
• Organometallics
• physica status solidi B
• RSC Advances
• Surface Science
• The Journal of Physical Chemistry
• Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie
• Zeitung für Naturforschung A

• Antonia Gerstenberg

• Philipp Wellmann

• Emilie Chartraine

• Luisa Kärmer
• Robert Jahn
• Toni Oesterreich

• Prof. Dr. Joachim Reinhold
• Prof. Dr. Fritz Dietz

• Dr. Menyhart Sarosi, Member of the group 2021
• Dr. Jan-Niclas Luy, Member of the group 2016 - 2021
• Thomas „Reuti” Reuter, Member of the group 2011 - 2020
• M.Sc. Daniel Grigjanis, Member of the group in 2019
• Dr. Lisa Pecher. Member of the group 2013–2018
  Moved to: Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (Deutschland, Editor „Angewandte Chemie"

• M.Sc. Marius Herbold, Member of the group in 2017
  Moved to: Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen (Deutschland) 

• Dr. Nikolay Zaitsev, Member of the group 2014–2017
  Moved to: Tomsk State University (Russland)

• Dr. Andreas Stegmüller, Member of the group 2012–2016
  Moved to: Fraunhofer-Institut, Hanau (Deutschland)

• Dr. Phil Rosenow, Member of the group 2011–2016
  Moved as a postdoc to: J. Moloney, University of Arizona, Tucson (USA)

• Dr. Marc Raupach,  Member of the group 2011–2015
  Moved as a postdoc to: SCM, Amsterdam (Niederlande)

• Dr. Slimane Laref, Member of the group 2013–2015
  Moved to: KAUST, Thuwal (Saudi Arabien)

• M.Sc. Lukas Trombach, Member of the group in 2014
  Moved as postgraduate to: Dr. Peter Schwerdtfeger CTCP, Auckland (Neuseeland)

• M.Sc. Christoph Schober, Member of the group in 2012
  Moved as postgraduate to: Dr. Karsten Reuter TU München (Deutschland)

• M.Sc. Martin Galbraith, Member of the group 2011–2012,
  Moved to: Dr. Marc Vrakking Max-Born-Institut, Berlin (Deutschland)